Canada

Christina Leano is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Fordham University with a degree in International relations and economics. As a writer, teacher and activist, Christina’s interests centers on the growth of emerging nations particularly in the Middle East and Latin America, foreign policy, human rights, and gender justice. This coming year, Christina will conduct women’s leadership programs and teach English to University students in Turkey through the U.S. State Department Fulbright Scholarship. Christina has lived in the south of France, Rome, Peru and Seattle, Washington. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Tagalog. She loves adventures, dancing and meeting new people and hopes to make a career of traveling and writing about the world and the people who are in it.